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VOL. XXXIV. 



MARCH I, 1899. 



No. 5. 



COl^lTEISITS. 



MizpEH, OR Neby Samuei, (Illustrated) 
Friis 129 

A Day of Disappointments R. C. I. 131 

The Chieftain and His Dog 136 

Topics of the Times: The Editor. 

The Blessing of Children 137 

Refusing the Sacrament 138 

Masked and Character Balls 138 

The Earth to be Renewed 139 

The Strangk History of the Pitcairn 
Islanders Nephi Anderson 140 

Anecdotes of DisTiNoaisHEn Men 142 

Kditoriai, Thoughts: 

Courtesy Costs Nothing but Goes Far 144 



Getting Boys Early into the Harness 145 

The Little Missionary (Illustrated) 

Homespun 146 

A Mormon Youth and Ingersoll W. A. 

M 151 

For Conscience Sake 154 

Work Well Done (Poetry) Alva A. 

Tanner 154 

Our Little Folks: 

A Lesson to Kittens and Boys (Illus- 
trated) Prince Arthur 155 

For the Letter-Box: 158 

The Birdie's Lullaby (Music) Frank W. 

Merrill 159 



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Vol. XXXIV. 



SALT LAKE CITY, MARCH 1, 1899. 



No. 5. 



niZPEH, OR NEBY SAMUEL. 



Two thousand eight hundred and fifty- 
two feet above the sea-level, and promi- 
nently located a little north of west of 
Jerusalem, Mizpeh, or the tomb of the 



Moslems have a" mosque there, with a 
minaret or tower upon it. This can be 
seen from afar; and by ascending the 
minaret one of the finest views in the 
neighborhood can be obtained. 

The mosque is said to contain the 



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Prophet Samuel, may be seen. This 
place is higher in altitude than the Mount 
of Olives, and as such it is seen from a 
long distance. From the picture here 
presented, it will be discovered that the 



THE TOMB OF SAMUEL. 

tomb of Samuel. The Mohammedans 
do not like to show it, but it is brought 
to light with a little " backshees, " or a 
present. The place is revered alike b}' 
Christians, Jews and Moslems. 



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This is believed to be the ancient city 
or fortress of Benjamin, called Mizpeh 
(the sentinel. ) It is well named, for it 
towers up like a sentinel on a high place. 
According to tradition this is the birth- 
place, residence and burial place of 
Samuel the Prophet. Yet this, as is 
the case with nnany other places, is not 
well established as being the place. It 



joy," because from there they had their 
first glimpses of the Holy City. At one 
time a handsome shrine was found here 
which was much frequented by pilgrims. 
Looking at the place one will recall 
a great many important events in the 
history of ancient Israel. In the days 
immediately before the birth of Samuel, 
the High Priest Eli judged the people. 




LITTLE SAMUEL BROUGHT TO THE TEMPLE. 



is said, however, that in 565 A. D. the 
Emperor Justinian had a well dug in 
the monastery of St. Samuel, which it 
would seem occupied this place. By 
the Crusaders it was regarded as ancient 
Shiloh; they, therefore, built a church 
over the tomb. By them it was also 
called mons gaudii, or "mountain of 



But being of an easy turn of mind he 
allowed his sons to commit great sins 
unreproved. In course of time God 
raised up Samuel in a remarkable way. 
His mother, who was a devout and faith- 
ful woman, had up to that time been 
barren. She went to the temple of the 
Lord and in fasting and prayer asked 



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131 



the Lord for a son whom she promised 
to dedicate to the Lord for His service. 
The Lord heard her prayers and gave 
her a son whom she named Samuel. At 
the proper time she took her boy to 
Eli and dedicated him to the Lord's 
service. This incident has been an 
example to many a good and noble 
A'oman since that event. Not a few 
have gone to places where they believed 
God dwelt, and in the humility and 
simplicity of their souls have asked 
God for a child, making promises to 
Him what they would do if their prayers 
were heard. Here in Turkey we have 
heard of such cases; and, if I am not 
mistaken, similar cases have occurred in 
our temples in Zion, where, through the 
blessings and promises of the servants 
of God, women have been blessed with 
children; and thus received direct 
testimonies of the virtue and power of 
the Priesthood. 

Later on, after the death of Eli, 
Samuel became a great Prophet of God, 
and judged the people in righteousness. 
But the people had become tiled of 
existing circumstances concerning their 
form of government. A great political 
move among them forced Samuel to ask 
the Lord about a king. The Lord told 
Samuel that the House of Israel had 
not rejected him, but God, hence give 
them their wish, said the Lord. This 
resulted in a complete change from a 
prophetic government, or reign of 
judges acknowledged by God and the 
people, to a despotic monarchy. Samuel 
told the people the consequences of 
their mistakes, the fulfillment of which 
he lived to see. 

Then came the stormy reign of King 
Saul and the preparation of David for 
his successor. All of which makes in- 
structive reading for the Latter-day 
Saints. 



"Obedience is better than sacrifice; 
and to hearken better than the fat of 
rams," said the great Prophet upon one 
occasion. This has been quoted many 
times by the Latter-day Saints. In 
looking at these old monuments many of 
these ancient scenes come up vividly 
before a person, and one wonders how 
this world can continue to make so 
many mistakes in the face of so much 
evidence of what the Lord wishes. 
Probably no circumstance is more clear 
in scripture to show that God requires 
obedience of His children than the 
history of Saul, King of Israel. And 
yet the people of the world and many of 
the Saints fail to comprehend that God 
requires strict obedience to His word as 
He reveals it through His servants the 
Prophets. 

A great contrast may be seen between 
Samuel the Prophet, and Saul the King. 
Both were men of promise in their 
youth and both were men of prophecy. 
But Saul, failing of obedience, was 
deprived of his throne, while Samuel, 
faithful, obedient and humble before the 
Lord, remained a prophet to the end. 
He was an example for all God's Saints, 
while Saul died forsaken and left an 
unworthy name. 

Friis. 



A DAY OF DISAPPOINTHENTS. 

Beth came dancing into the room. 

"Mamma, Mamma," she cried, all out 
of breath, "Alice and her mother want us 
to spend the day with them tomorrow 
at Mrs. Keith's in Alameda. May we 
go? Mrs. Keith don't know we're com- 
ing, and so she says we'll make it a reg- 
ular surprise and take picnic. She's 
frying chicken now. And if it don't 
rain tonight, we can eat out in the 
grove. " 



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"For pity's sake, Beth, do not saj' 
'don't' all the time'instead of 'doesn't,'" 

ft 

said Ruth sharply. 

"Why Ruth, I don't believe you're 
glad. Doesn't you want to go?" asked 
Beth mischievously. 

"Mamma, you told Harry and me that 
we might go to Cousin Kate's tomor- 
row," said Ruth, ignoring Beth alto- 
gether. 

"Can't you put it off till another day?" 
said Mrs. Hart. "It would be too bad 
to disappoint Alice now. Cousin Kate 
doesn't know you are coming, so you 
might just as well go another day. I'd 
rather go with you anyway when you go 
to Berkeley, I'm afraid to let you go 
alone." 

"Well, you needn't be," said Harry 
stoutly, "we know the way." And then he 
told in detail what car to take, where to 
transfer, and where to get off, and the 
color of their cousin's house and all. 

Their mother told them that they 
might go either place they chose. Harry 
wanted to go with the rest of the party, 
but after some persuasion, he consented 
to go with his sister. They were both 
disappointed that ihey could not go both 
places, but Ruth had made up her mind 
that she must see Cousin Kate and the 
baby, so gave up everything else for 
that. 

Early the next morning they started 
out. The sun was shining brightly, 
although a heavy rain had fallen dur- 
ing the night, thus spoiling their plans 
for an out-door picnic. 

" Have you plenty of money, children ?" 
asked their Mamma, as they stood on the 
corner waiting for their cars. 

"Our car-fare. That's all we need," 
answered Ruth. 

"Well, take good care of yourselves. 
Give my love to Kate, and tell her to 
come over and spend the day some day 



next week. You had better take one of 
these umbrellas, it may rain before 
night." 

"Oh, we don't want to be bothered 
with an umbrella. It won't rain." 

Just then the car which the folks 
were to take came up, and they boarded 
it, leaving the two children standing 
alone. 

The ride to Alameda in the jolty old- 
fashioned horse-cars was not particularly 
enchanting to the ladies, but the three 
little girls enjoyed every moment of it. 
When at last they reached Mrs. Keith's 
pretty home, they noticed that the blinds 
were all do\\n, and that there didn't 
seem to be anybody about. 

"It would be a joke on us if they were 
not at home," laughed Mrs. Hart. 
" "Oh, they'll be at home," answered 
Mrs. Edwards, ringing the bell. "They 
never all go away at a time." 

It was several minutes before the 
bell was answered, then Mrs. Keith her- 
self partly opened the door and looked 
out. 

"Surprise!" called the children, clap- 
ping their hands. 

Their mothers saw at once that some- 
thing was amiss. Mrs. Keith's face was 
white. "What is the matter?" they 
asked. 

"Go down off the porch. I'll be out 
in a minute, and then I'll tell you," said 
their friend, shutting the doot in their 
faces. 

When she came out they were all 
standing by the gate, looking rather 
scared. There was a disagreeable odor 
about her clothing that made the chil- 
dren put their handkerchiefs to their 
noses. 

"It is a disinfectant," she said. "In 
the night Charlie was taken very ill. 
We sent for the doctor at once. He is 
in there now. He was afraid at first 



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133 



that it was a very bad case of scarlet 
fever. He thinks now that it is only 
a cold, but is not sure yet. And 1 
wouldn't dare let you in with the chil- 
dren till I know that it would be safe." 

"Oh, I'm so sorry," said little Daisy, 
innocently, "coz we come to stay all day. 
We brung our dinner along." 

Beth, who had more tact, silenced her at 
once. "We ain't sorry for that, you silly. 
We're sorry that Charlie is sick, aren't 
we. Mamma?" 

But Mamma was too busy talking with 
the other ladies to notice them. 

"We'll come again sometime," said 
Mrs. Edwards. "The children had a 
pleasant ride, and we can eat our pic- 
nic at home. We are very sorry for you, 
though. Don't let it worry you, Mrs. 
Keith." 

The dear old lady could not help feel- 
ing sorry at turning her friends from her 
door, even in a case of this kind. "I'm 
so sorry," she said; "I can't tell you 
how sorry I am. You might eat your 
luncheon out in the orchard, but the 
grass is too damp. It may not be the 
fever that he has at all, but it is best 
not to run any risks. I'm so sorry. I 
know that the children are disappointed. 
You'll come again, won't you? If I'd 
only known I would have sent you 
word." 

They left the old lady at the gate still 
expressing her regret. 

"Why, what is the matter with my 
baby?" asked Mrs. Hart, when they were 
seated in the car going home. 

Daisy's eyes were full of tears. "I 
think it is real mean," she said with 
quivering lips; "Ruth and Harry'U have 
the best time after all." 

Mrs. Hart laughed merrily. She could 
never resist the ridiculous side of any- 
thing. 

"Poor little duckling! The joke is 



rather on us, isn't it? But let's not tell 
them a thing about it. They'll never 
know but what we have had a lovely 
time. ' 

The children were disappointed. 
Daisy cried aloud. In fact she howled! 
Being the baby, although six years old, 
she considered it her lawful right and 
privilege to lift up her voice whenever 
she saw fit, which was frequently. Alice 
and Beth were more quiet with their 
giief, but even Mamma's merriment failed 
to restore their good-humor. It was 
not until she suggested going to the 
Cliff that Daisy ceased her music and 
the others would speak. Then they 
were delighted, and chatted and laughed 
as usual. 

On the ferry they were still in excel- 
lent spirits, when the wind, blowing a 
perfect gale, whisked Beth's hat off her 
head into the water below. 

"We'll have to go back now," she 
said. "I won't go through the streets of 
San Francisco with nothing on my 
head. " 

"Here is my handkerchief. Shall I 
tie it on?" asked her mother, always 
ready to tease. 

"I don't want your handkerchief," 
answered Beth. "I want to go back 
home. I'll go alone if you won't come 
with me." 

"My dear," said her mother gently, 
"You would not spoil the pleasure of the 
rest, would you? And you know that I 
couldn't go alone. We will stop at the 
first milliner's and buy another one." 

The child was proud, and it hurt her 
to think of being seen without a hat. 
She was really glad when, before reach- 
ing the San Francisco pier, the clouds, 
which had gathered unnoticed, burst 
forth in a shower of rain. 

"We are doomed to disappointment 
today, sure," said Mrs. Edwards, as 



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they crowded into the cabin for shelter. 
"The only thing for us to do now, is to 
go home. This may keep up all night." 

Mrs. Hart agreed, of course, and 
Daisy set up another howl. As quickly 
as possible they changed over to the 
Oakland ferry, and started homeward. 

Only those who have been there, 
know what a good smart rain in Califor- 
nia implies. In spite of umbrellas, they 
were drenched before they reached the 
house after leaving the ferry train. It 
was rather a sad looking set that re- 
turned home that day from their picnic 
party. Poor Beth looked the worst of 
them all. The rain had taken every 
particle of curl out of her hair, which 
blew all over her face like dripping rat- 
tails. Her mother had insisted upon her 
wearing a handkerchief on her head to 
keep her from taking cold. She looked 
indescribably funny, and set tns whole 
party off into peals of laughter every 
time they looked at her. In spite of her 
chagrin, Beth enjoyed the situation as 
much as any of them, but she preserved 
the utmost gravity, and such an appear- 
ance of ill-humor that the rest believed 
that for once the child's sweet temper 
was actually ruffled. 

When they reached home and were 
getting dry and warm. Mamma kept up 
their spirits by making up poetry about 
their trip. Beth could not be made to 
smile. She declared that the poetry was 
very bad, and not worth a smile. Her 
mother stoutly protested that such 
rhymes must be inspired, and that they 
should be preserved forever; so she sat 
down to copy them to send with the 
long weekly letters to the people at home. 

About dusk Daisy, who was standing 
at the window, cried, "Here come 
Ruth and Harry. Did you ever! They 
don't look as if they'd had too good a 
time themselves." 



Mrs. Hart and Beth ran to the win- 
dow to see, but by this time the chil- 
dren were in the house. When they came 
into the room, their mother held up her 
hands in horror. Two more forlorn look- 
ing objects were not to be found in the 
whole city. Ruth's hat was a sight to 
behold. The plumes, of which she had 
been so proud, hung disconsolate and 
dripping around her face; her nose was 
skinned and bleeding; her dress was 
drabbled and torn; her new shoes, which 
she had insisted upon wearing, were 
soaking wet and completely ruined; and 
the woebegone expression on her dirty 
face was enough to melt a heart of 
stone. She threw herself into a chair 
and burst into tears. Harry, too proud 
to cry, being a boy, sat down on the rug 
in front of the fireplace and commenced 
to unlace his shoes, without saying a 
word. He was almost as sorry a sight 
as his sister. He was wet and dirty; his 
shoes were a total wreck; his feet were 
swollen and blistered. For some time 
their mother could learn nothing from 
either of them. Then, as Ruth con- 
tinued to sob in a hysterical way, Harry 
took it upon himself to tell of their 
day's pleasure. 

" Well, we got on the wrong car some- 
how, I don't Know how it happened, and 
didn't find it out till we were miles 
away. Then we got off and walked back 
to where we started from, and — " 

"Why didn't you ride back?" asked 
Beth. 

"We only had twenty cents when we 
started, and we'd spent ten of it to get 
that far, and if we'd rode back, then 
we'd had to walk clear out to Cousin 
Kate's, which would have been worse, 
don't ye think? Then we got on the 
right car and transferred, and got along 
all right till we went to get off the horse 
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Cousin Kate's. We told the man to let 
us off there, and he was going to stop 
all right, I guess, but old Kuth got gay 
and tried to jump off while the car was 
going. Of course she tumbled kerflop 
on the ground and skinned her big 
nose." Here Ruth began to laugh. 
"When we got to Cousin Kate's, it was 
blazing hot and she wasn't home! 

"There wasn't a soul at home," said 
Ruth. "We were nearly dead we were 
so tired and warm, so we sat down on 
the steps to rest. Harry found an old 
newspaper and covered his head. ' 

"I went round to the back to see if I 
couldn't find something to eat," said 
Harry, "but all I could find was an old 
potato. " 

"Which he ate," said Ruth. 

"Well, I most starved. I guess you'd 
have ett it too. " 

"Certainly not if you did," answered 
his sister. 

"What did you do then, you poor 
children?" asked Mamma. 

"After we got kind of rested, we walked 
home," said Harry with pitiful sim- 
plicity. 

Their mothe)' could not help joining 
in the laugh which followed, even while 
she hastened anxiously to get them into 
dry clothing. While they were being 
dressed they continued their story. 

"Harry wanted to go into the corner 
store and ask the woman for some crack- 
ers and some car-fare, but I knew that 
she had seen me fall, and so I hurried 
him past. 1 thought maybe that she 
would think we were tramps anyway and 
refuse. Of course I would have bor- 
rowed the money from Cousin Kate if 
she had been home, but I wouldn't go 
around begging a dime from strangers. 
We didn't dare try to come a shorter 
way for fear ihat we would get lost, so 
we followed the street car track." 



"Did you walk in the middle of the 
street?" asked Daisy who was ever ready 
to find fault with the other children, they 
criticized her so often. 

"Part of the way," answered Harry. 
"I wanted Ruth to get on a car and 
ride till they put us off, and then get on 
the next one, and so on. We'd been 
home long ago if we had, and would not 
have been all wet and tired." 

"Of course I wouldn't do any such 
thing. It wouldn't have been right," 
said Ruth, who was too proud to beg a 
ride and too honest to steal one. "Then 
it commenced to rain, and Harry want- 
ed me to go into a store and buy an um- 
brella and have it charged. As if they'd 
let us have one, " scornfully. 

"Well, they would, I guess, if we'd 
told them who we were, don't ye think?" 
said the boy. 

"Why no, of course not. They don't 
know anybody from Utah, I don't sup- 
pose, and if they had, they would not 
have believed us. We looked like regu- 
lar ragamuffins. We were trudging 
along, hold of hands — Harry insisted 
upon keeping tight hold of my hand all 
the way— when we passed a restaurant 
with a great big bowl of soup in the win- 
dow, marked ten cents. My, it did look 
good! Harry's eyes almost dropped on to 
the ground he stared so hard. 'Say, 
Ruth,' he said, I wish I had the dime 
that's in my overalls' pocket, don't 
you?' I had literall}' to drag him away, 
or he'd have broken the glass and 
grabbed it, am 1 afraid." 

Later as they were sitting before the 
fire, wrapped in blankets and drinking 
hot composition, (Ruth had an inch or 
two of court-plaster on her nose, and 
Harry's feet were bandaged,) Harry 
asked, "Does anybody know what day it 
might be?" 

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isn't," said Mamma. "It is my dear 
boy's birthday, and here is my present 
for you. I was too busy to think of it 
this morning." And she handed him a 
beautiful silver watch and chain. 

"I thought you had forgotten," he 
said, giving her a great, bear hug. 

Just then the door-bell rang and Cousin 
Kate and her husband came into the 
room. The woman in the store had seen 
the children, and had told her, when she 
passed, of their visit and of Ruth's fall. 
As soon as her husband came home they 
hurried over to make sure that they were 
safe. Cousin Ned was really concerned 
when they told him of their walk. 

"Why, you must have tramped eight 
miles, at least, ' he said, counting it up. 
But he roared with laughter every time 
he looked at Ruth's plastered nose. 

"Well, come again, children," said 
Cousin Kate. "I am not often away." 

"We'll come some time with Mamma, 
when we know for sure that you will be 
at home," said Ruth. 

"And we won't go on any more pic- 
nics, I guess, till we know where we'll 
get a chance to eat it," said Daisj. 

Cousin Ned suggested a candy pull or 
something as a solace, and Daisy sleep- 
il}' applauded, but Mamma wisely decided 
that the best thing for them to do was to 
get right to bed, and the tired children 
were all willing. 

So ended their day of disappointments. 

R. C. I. 



THE CHIEFTAIN AND HIS DOQ. 



An Indian Legend. 

An Indian chief of great fame and 
power, growing old after a long life 
devoted to the welfare of his people, 
and weary of his cares, determined to 
set out on a journey which would lead 
him over the river, the broad plains and 



the blue mountains he could see rising 
in the distance, to the happy hunting 
grounds of his forefathers — even to the 
gates of Paradise. 

Leaving all his burdens in the care of 
those whom he could trust, he started, 
accompanied by his wife who had shared 
his fortunes for more than half a century, 
his son, and two faithful followers — his 
dog, to which he was greatly attached, 
following him. 

He set out with the first gray blush of 
the morning, and the day was long. 
Ihe track, after he had forded the river, 
lay across parching plains, and along 
the steep hillsides, up, up to the summit 
of the sun-clad mountains. The blind- 
ing storm swept over the crags, and the 
snow grew deeper and deeper. 

After a time the courage of the two 
servants failed, and with tears they 
besought their master to turn homeward; 
but the chieftain turned toward the 
brilliant light streaming from the setting 
sun, where he thought he could already 
see the pearly gates of Paradise, and 
said: "Return if you will; I will go on." 

The men turned back, sorrowful to 
leave their chief, yet glad to have his 
permission; but the faithful dog lifted 
his wistful eyes to his master's face, 
nestled his head under his hand and 
refused to leave him. 

More difficult grew the way, till at 
length the son, too, faltered, fell back, 
and left his father. " When we reach 
the summit," said the chief to his wife, 
"we shall see Paradise. Cheer up, for 
we are almost there!" 

Soon tramping through the blinding 
drifts, they came to the bleak crags, 
around which the storm-clouds dashed 
and the winds mockingly shrieked. There 
was the precipitous descent into the 
thick fog, above and beyond which 
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heart of the wife failed her, and she re- 
mained standing while he went on down 
the slope and was lost in the gathering 
clouds. The dog remained for a little 
time with her, whining and looking up 
in her face, but when she turned home- 
ward he followed his master. 

Day by day, night after night, the 
chief and his dog went on together, 
over crag, hill and swamp, until they 
reached the side of the last snow-capped 
peak, and they saw the snow was roseate 
with the glow from the gates of the 
Heavenly City; yet the bitter blast 
which swept the heights was not less 
cold, and the snow deepened, as with 
failing strength the aged chief climbed 
the precipitous side. At last he sank 
deeper, and, overpowered, fell insensible. 
The dog, which had kept close to him, 
sprang to his side, lay on his breast, 
and kept the warmth in his feeble heart, 
and the sharp cries he made, aroused 
him from the sleep creeping over him. 

Recovering his senses, the chief 
gained his feet, patted the good dog, 
which now with joyful gambols and 
cheerful barking led the way. 

The summit was gained, and the chief 
found himself standing by the glittering 
door of Paradise. An angel, clad in 
light, stood by its side, who asked: 
"Whence comest thou, and what is thy 
desire?" 

"From the earth," replied the way- 
farer, "and I come to enter the pearly 
gate." 

"Thy deeds have been wafted before 
thee, and the gate swings wide for such 
as thee; but what is that in the shadow 
behind thee?" 

"That is my faithful dog." 

"You do not ask that he, too, enter? 
Nay, do not, for it is impossible to 
grant. You may come, but he must re- 
main without." 



The chief pleaded earnestly with the 
angel, begging that his companion be 
admitted, but the angel was inexorable, 
and cried: "It is forbidden — cease! — it 
n.ust not ba!" 

"Then I will stay with him!" said the 
chief. "He has been faithful when 
others forsook me! In the very begin- 
ning of my toilsome journey my most 
trustful servants left me. My son de- 
serted me, and even my wife, when I 
was most in need, turned from me. He 
saved my life in the drifts of the summit. 
He guided me after I could no longer 
guide myself. Where he goes I will go, 
and share his fate as he has shared 
mine." 

The chieftain was turning to leave the 
gate, firmly resolved, yet with heart 
filled with sorrow and regret, when lo! 
the trembling dog, with upturned, wist- 
ful eyes, was transformed into a radiant 
angel whose clear ej'es looked upon him 
with the mild love he had so often seen 
in those of that faithful creature. Smil- 
ing, this fair vision of loveliness took his 
hand, and leading him to the now wide- 
swung gate, said: "I was your guardian 
angel. If you had not been true to me, 
I could not have guided you. As you 
have been good to me of the least, your 
reward shall be of the greatest. Enter 
in and be happy forever." Selected. 



TOPICS OF THE TIMES. 



THE BLESSING OF CHILDREN. 

The question has been raised several 
times as to the proper manner of bless- 
ing children. This subject has been 
written upon before in this paper, but 
it seems proper that the matter be again 
referred to. A correspondent addresses 
the editor in these words; 

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confer on them all the powers and bless- 
ings of the new and everlasting cove- 
nant? 1 observe Elders doing this 
sometimes in our fast meetings, and in 
one instance the Elder conferred all the 
keys and powers and blessings of the 
new and everlasting covenant upon the 
babe he was blessing." 

The blessing of children is a very 
simple matter and it should not be sur- 
rounded at all by forms. The bestow- 
ing upon a babe of the blessings and 
powers that pertain to adults and that 
are only pronounced upon people of 
more advanced years and experience, is 
entirely unsuitable and improper. It is 
a departure from the simplicity of the 
beautiful ordinance of taking the infant, 
bestowing upon it a name, and giving it 
a blessing. Certainly the use of such 
terms as our correspondent refers to is 
improper, for this reason if for no other, 
that there is, or should be, no necessary 
distinction between the blessing con- 
ferred upon children whose parents do 
not belong to the Church and those 
whose parents do. In some minds there 
seems to be an idea that there should be 
a different form of blessing for children 
born of non-members and for those who 
are identified with the Church; and it is 
from such sources that in the case of 
children belonging to members of the 
Church "the blessings of Abraham, 
Isaac and Jacob" and all the attendant 
favors are frequently conferred upon the 
child. This is all wrong. If we take 
the example of our Lord and Redeemer, 
who !s our pattern and whose example 
we cannot too closely follow, we find 
that He blessed all who were brought to 
Him. We have no hint that He asked 
whose children they were, or the stand- 
ing or faith of their parents. His 
remark was, "Suffer little children, and 
forbid them not, to come unto me, for 



of such is the Kingdom of Heaven;" 
and He laid His hands upon them and 
blessed them. All little children, no 
matter what their parentage may be, 
are innocent in the sight of heaven, and 
they should be received as such and 
blessed as such. We repeat, the ordi- 
nance is one of beautiful simplicity. 
Those who officiate ought to guard 
against extravagance, either in language 
or promise. 



REFUSING THE SACRAMENT. 

A CORRESPONDENT asks as to what 
action should be taken with reference 
to a Sunday School teacher who refuses 
to partake of the Sacrament Sunday 
after Sunday — how long this should be 
permitted without action being taken 
upon it. 

Before giving any expression of our 
views about it we should want to know 
what reason the teacher had; we can 
give no rule for such cases without 
knowing the circumstances. Certainly 
no person is to be condemned unless 
there should be found good reason for 
it, and in the case of a teacher who 
declines to partake of the Sacrament we 
should think it very proper for the 
Superintendent to talk with him pri- 
vately and endeavor to learn his reasons, 
to the end that if there were differences 
which could be removed or difficulties 
which could be explained, this might be 
done before the affair assumed any im- 
portance or excited the notice of other 
teachers or of the children. 



MASKED AND CHARACTER BALLS. 

"Will you kindly inform me through 
your columns if it is against the rules 
of the Church to have what are known 
as character or fancy dress balls? In 
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only form of recreation for the young 
people, and where no masked balls are 
held, merely the costumes worn, many 
feel that the objection to masquerading 
is removed. " 

There are decided objections to 
masked balls among the Latter-day 
Saints, because they can so easily be 
made agencies of evil. It is difficult to 
understand how one's interest or pleas- 
ure can be increased by concealing his 
or her face at a social party. Of course 
not all who do this have any improper 
motives whatever; but the opportunity 
for the evil-minded is there, and inno- 
cent persons are frequently thrown into 
close contact with others as partners 
whom they would scorn to meet or asso- 
ciate with under other circumstances. 
A masked ball, as such, is therefore en- 
tirely disapproved of. 

As to character or costume balls where 
the face is not masked, much of the ob- 
jection above referred to would be re- 
moved. There is of course the item of 
expense in dressing in character and 
sometimes there is a tendency to inde- 
cency in costume; in other words, those 
who take part sometimes feel that prop- 
erly to present the character they have 
in mind they must wear clothing of a 
pattern or material which they and their 
friends would be ashamed of under other 
circumstances. Such a feature as this 
is, of course, to be criticised. But, on 
the other hand, character balls can fre- 
quently be made very entertaining and 
even instructive where thought is be- 
stowed upon the costume and it repre- 
sents truthfully the person or the time 
that the wearer has in mind. In conclu- 
sinn, we cannot feel that the objection to 
masked balls applies to the kind o^ 
parties to which our correspondent re- 
fers. The latter, however, are only en- 
joyable when characterized by good 



taste, and, like all other amusements of 
the kind, should be managed with great 
prudence. 



THE EARTH TO BE RENEWED. 

The tenth Article of T^aith of the 
Latter-day Saints states among other 
things their belief "that the earth will 
be renewed and receive its paradisaic 
glory." The question is sometimes asked 
if this change is to take place before the 
millennial reign of peace, during that 
period, or afterwards. 

That the earth is to be renewed and 
glorified is evident from the words of 
the New Testament writers. The Savior 
told His disciples that "heaven and 
earth shall pass awa}," (Matthew 24:35); 
and John the Revelator says that in his 
vision of future events he "saw a new 
heaven and a new earth: for the first 
heaven and the first earth were passed 
away," (Revelation 21: 1). He contin- 
ues by describing the glories of the 
holy city, the New Jerusalem which 
should come down upon this new earth 
"from God out of heaven." The Revela- 
tion of St. John depicts both past and 
future events. These events are evidently 
set forth by the Apostle in the order in 
which they should occur. According to 
the order of description the renewing of 
the earth is to take place after the mil- 
lennial reign, for the occurrences of the 
thousand years of peace, as well as those 
that should follow that glorious era, are 
mentioned before the event of the earth 
passing away and being restored as the 
glorified abode of immortal beings. 

The revelations given to the Prophet 
Joseph Smith make it clear that the 
earth is to be renewed and receive its 
paradisaic glory after the peaceful reign 
ot a thousand years is past. In a revela- 
tion given him in September, 1830, are 
recorded these words: "When the thou- 



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sand years are ended, and men again 
begin to deny their God, then will I 
spare the earth for a little season; and 
the end shall come, and the heaven and 
the earth shall be consumed and pass 
away, and there shall be a new heaven 
and a new earth, for all old things shall 
pass away, and all things shall become 
new, even the heaven and the earth, and 
all the fullness thereof, both men and 
beasts, the fowls of the air, and the 
fishes of the sea." (Doctrine and Cov- 
enants, section 29.) 

The Editor. 



THE STRANQE HISTORY OF THE 
PITCAIRN ISLANDERS. 

CHAPTER III. 



The Fate of the Pandora. 



After leaving Captain Bligh and his 
men in the open boat. Christian and his 
crew sailed to the island of Toobouai, 
south of Tahiti, where they intended to 
land and form a settlement. On the way 
they threw overboard most of the bread 
fruit plants and divided among them- 
selves the personal property on board. 
Arriving at their destination, they found 
the natives hostile and the islands des- 
titute of domestic animals. So they 
decided to make a call at Tahiti and 
procure what they needed. The Bounty 
anchored in Batavia bay June 6. The 
natives were naturally curious to know 
why the ship had come back so soon 
and what had become of Captain Bligh: 
but they were told a plausible story of 
how Bligh had fallen in with Captain 
Cook, how these two had decided to 
make a settlement on a newly discovered 
island, and how Christian had been sent 
to Tahiti for a new supply of hogs, 
fowls, etc. Consequently, the good- 



hearted natives carried on board the 
Bounty three hundred and twelve hogs, 
thirty-eight goats, eight dozen chickens, 
some cows, and a large quantity of fruit. 
The mutineers secured eight men, nine 
women, and seven boys from the island 
to accompany them, and with this cargo 
and addition to their passenger list they 
again sailed for Toobouai, where they 
landed and began building a fort. 

But ill fate followed the mutineers. 
They were continually harrassed by the 
natives. They quarrelled among them- 
selves, and it was evident that Christian 
was fast losing his authority over the 
men. Accordingly, after a stormy coun- 
cil, it was decided to give up the settle- 
ment and go back to Tahiti. Those who 
wished to remain on that island could do 
so, and the remainder would stay with 
the ship. 

Arriving at Tahiti, sixteen chose to 
be put on shore. The remaining nine 
agreed to remain with the Bounty. The 
guns, powder, etc. were equally divided 
among the men. The ship's crew took 
with them seven Tahitians and twelve 
women, and on the 21st of June, 1789, 
this company sailed away, not to be 
heard of again for twenty years, when 
their strange history come to light on 
Pitcairn Island. Before tracing that his- 
tory let us see what became of the six- 
teen who remained at Tahiti. 

As was stated in the last chapter, four- 
teen of these men were taken on board 
of the frigate Pandora, sent from Eng- 
land after tliem. The other two had 
met with violent deaths on the island. 
During their stay of a year and a half 
among the Tahitians, the mutineers had 
been treated very kindly. It is supposed 
that many of them married into the 
families of prominent chiefs on the 
island, and thus an intimacy grew up be- 
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which on the part of the simple-hearted 
islanders, became very close. When the 
Pandora arrived and the mutineers were 
put in irons on board the vessel, great was 
the commotion and grief among the 
Tahitians. The unhappy wives came on 
board bringing their husbands all the 
delicacies in the way of food which the 
island afforded. The tender-heartedness 
exhibited by these women is illustrated 
by a story told of one of them. 

One of the men, Steward by name, 
had married a daughter of a chief with 
whom the pair had lived happily. 
When Steward was taken a prisoner on 
board the Pandora, his wife, whom he 
had named "Peggy," with her child 
hastily rowed in her canoe to the vessel. 
The scene between husband and wife 
was most heartrending. The officers 
were greatly moved, and Steward him- 
self begged that she might not again be 
admitted on board. The poor woman 
had to be separated from her husband 
by force, and carried back to the shore 
seemingly heart-broken. Not being per- 
mitted to see her husband again, she 
literally pined away and died within a 
short time. 

The Pandora with the prisoners sailed 
from Tahiti on May 8th, and spent some 
time among the South Sea islands in a 
fruitless search for the Bounty and the 
remaining mutineers. 

Mutiny on board a man-of-war is a 
capital offense, and the prisoners on 
board the Pandora were obliged to be 
kept in close confinement; but according 
to all accounts, these unfortunate men 
were treated with unnecessary cruelty. 
Their prison was a round box eleven 
feet in diameter built on the deck. The 
only entrance was by a small scuttle in 
the roof. In this trap, with hands and 
feet in irons, their condition must 
have been pitiable, especially in time of 



danger to the ship, a time which was 
now at hand. 

In the latter part of August the 
Pandora reached the eastern coast of 
Australia close to that dangerous reef of 
coral, called the Great Barrier Reef, 
which extends for hundreds of miles 
along the coast. In searching for an 
opening in this wall to the more quiet 
waters within, the ship struck on the 
reef. This happened during the night, 
and it took the utmost efforts of the 
crew to keep the vessel afloat until 
morning. Then it was discovered that 
the ship was full of water and might 
sink at any moment. The small boats 
were made ready, some rafts were 
hastily constructed and thrown over- 
board, and all floating things on deck 
were unlashed. 

During the night three of the pris- 
oners had been relieved of their 
irons and set to work at the pumps. 
Some others had wrenched themselves free 
and had begged for a chance to try to save 
themselves, but they were ordered into 
their manacles again. In this condition 
they could but watch and pray, awaiting 
the moment of their inevitable doom. 

It seems that early that morning when 
the ship was fast sinking and officers 
and men were escaping as rapidly as 
possible into the boats, a little mercy 
touched the captain's heart and he sent 
help to the prisoners; but it was too 
late to release them all. A lurch of the 
vessel threw the guard from the roof of the 
prison box into the sea, leaving the scut- 
tle open. A number of the prisoners 
escaped through this with their irons 
still on, but in such a helpless condition 
that all of these save one went down 
when the vessel sank. 

The survivors gathered on a sandy 
quay a short distance from the wreck. 
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eighty-nine of the ship's crew were saved 
and thirty-one lost. Ten of the prison- 
ers answered to their names, but four 
were missing. 

The company lingered on this small 
island for three days. The officers and 
men took shelter under temporary tents, 
but the mutineers who were all nearly 
destitute of clothing had nothing to 
protect them from the sun and the 
burning sand. 

It will be remembered that Captain 
Bligh and his men in their small boat 
had sailed two years before through an 
opening in this same coral reef on their 
way to the Dutch settlement on Timor. 

The Pandora survivors had four small 
boats. The small quantity of provisions 
were divided to each crew and then they 
set out. For eighteen days they were 
out on the open sea subsisting on two 
wine glasses of water and a few ounces 
of bread per day. At last they arrived 
at Timor, where they remained for three 
weeks. From this point the men 
shipped in various Dutch vessels to 
Europe, the captain and his prisoners 
arriving in England, June 19th, 1792. 

Of the ten mutineers who were 
brought to England for trial, four proved 
that they had been forcibly detained on 
board the Bounty, and were therefore 
acquitted. Three were sentenced to 
death but afterwards pardoned, and three 
were executed. Nephi Anderson. 

(TO BE CONTINUED.) 



ANECDOTES OF DISTINGUISHED HEN. 



The Ameer of Afghanistan takes great 
pride in his gun factory at Cabul, over 
which Sir Salters Pyne presides. He 
insists that his khans shall visit it. 
Amra Khan, who controls a distant 
mountain region, came in one day, and 



after seeing the works, asked Sir Salters. 
"Now tell me in words just how you 
make guns." "It is quite easy," replied 
Pyne; "you make a hole first, and then 
wrap some iron around it.' "Ah!" said 
Amra Khan, sorrowfully, "there is plenty 
of air for the hole in my country, only 
no one there knows how to wrap the 
iron around it." — Argonaut. 

Here is a charming story about Verdi. 
A farmer, living in the depths of the 
country, was very desirous to hear one 
of the illustrious composer's operas. 
So, better late than never, he took his 
ticket, traveled up to Milan, and, secur- 
ing a good seat, heard "Aida. " He was 
very much disappointed, and wrote to 
Verdi to say so, adding that he did not 
like the music at all, and that under 
these circumstances he hoped that Verdi 
would see the reasonableness of at once 
returning him his money. There was 
his railway fare, his ticket of admission, 
and his supper at Milan, for which he 
inclosed the bill. The grand old maes- 
tro entered fully into the humor of the 
situation. He wrote back a polite letter 
regretting that his music had failed to 
please, inclosing the railway fare and 
the price of admission. But he added 
that, as the farmer would have to pro- 
vide himself with supper at home, he 
could not admit the justice of that part 
of his claim, and he absolutely declined 
to pay for his supper at MWd.n. — Mon- 
treal Star. 

After Tennyson had left an inn in the 
Island of Skye, the landlord was asked 
if he knew who had been staying in 
his house, that it was the poet Tennyson. 
He replied: "Lor' — to think o' that! 
and sure I thought he was a shentle- 
man!" Near Stirling the same remark 
was made to the keeper of the hotel 
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who you had wi' you t'other night?" 
"Naa; but he was a pleasant shentle- 
man. " "It was Tennyson, the poet." 
"An' wha' may he be?" "Oh, he is a 
writer o' verses, sich as ye see i' the 
papers." "Noo, to think o' that! jeest 
a pooblic writer, and I gied him ma 
best bedroom!" — Blackwood' s Magazine. 

During a recent brief outing in the 
Vatican gardens Leo XIII came across 
an assistant gardener who was digging 
the soil. His holiness is always anxious 
to study under its practical aspect the 
problem of just remuneration for the 
workmen, a subject on which in more 
than one encyclical he has developed 
broad-minded theories. "My good man," 
he said to the gardener, "how much do 
you receive a day for your labor?" 
"Two francs, your holiness," was the 
reply. The pontiff mused awhile. "And 
how many children have you?" "None, 
your holiness." "And does your wife 
also work for her livelihood?" "Holy 
father," said the laborer, "I have never 
been married." Once more the pontiff 
paused in reflection. "Then, my good 
man," he said, "I shall give instructions 
that from henceforward, instead of two 
francs a day, you will receive a franc 
and a half, and that half a franc will be 
added to the wages of some other work- 
man who has a wife and family to 
support. " — London Chronicle. 

The following anecdote is related of 
Lord Rosebery: He had appointed to 
meet a friend at a small country station, 
as they intended to travel in the same 
direction. The train arrived, but not 
his friend. Away in the distance his 
carriage was seen driving along at a 
gallop. It would take about five minutes 
to get to the station. The Earl en- 
treated the stationmaster to stop the 
train, but the latter refused, as the train 



was already late. An altercation ensued, 
and the Earl at last passionately ex- 
claimed, "We will see about that!" 
Sitting down between the rails in front 
of the engine, he would not budge until 
his friend had got safely into the train 

A New York firm applied to Abraham 
Lincoln, some years before he became 
President, for information as to the 
financial standing of one of his neigh- 
bors. Mr. Lincoln replied as follows: 
"Yours of the 10th inst. received. I 
am well acquainted with Mr. X., and 
know his circumstances. First of all, 
he has a wife and baby; together, they 
ought to be worth fifty thousand dollars. 
Secondly, he has an office, in which 
there is a table worth one and a half 
dollars, and three chairs, worth, say, 
one dollar. Last of all, there is in 
one corner a large rat-hole, which will 
bear looking into. Respectfully yours, 
A. Lincoln." — San Francisco Argo- 
naut. 

Garrick's happy lines on Sir John 
Hill, in his double faculty of physician 
and playwright, are well known: 

For physics and farces his equal there scarce is: 
His farce is a physic, his physic a farce is. 

Some other wit thus supplemented 
the couplet: 

The worst that we wish thee, for all thy vile 

crimes, 
Is to take thine own physic and read thine own 

rhymes. 

Nor did it end here. Malice, like 
echo, caught up the perishing strain, 
and the last epigram was the best of the 
three: 

No! let the order be reversed, 
Or he'll not rue his crimes; 

For if he takes his physic first 
He'll never read his rhymes. 



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^ v^ THE 1^ «^ 
GCORGC O. C7WN0N, EDITOR. 

SEMI-MONTHLY, - $2.00 PER ANNUM. 



SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. March i, 1899. 



EDITORIAL THOUGHTS. 



COURTESY COSTS NOTHING BUT GOES FAR. 

We have been impressed many times 
with the great lack of courtesy and con- 
siderate kindness shown by men and 
boys in our community toward women 
and children and aged people. It is a 
subject which we wish to call to the 
notice of all Sunday School workers, 
for it is important enough to demand 
constant thought and attention in our 
Sunday Schools. We should have among 
our rising generation a higher standard 
of true courtesy than at present exists. 
Boys should be taught to show respect 
and kindness to their mothers and their 
sisters and to all of the opposite sex, 
which is very properly called the weaker 
sex. But in our observation we see a 
woeful lack of this desirable quality. 
Let a street car containing a group of 
children stop in front of the school 
building, and it will frequently oe 
noticed that the stronger and bigger 
boys crowd out first, leaving the little 
ones and the girls to get out as best they 
can. Similar rudeness will be noticed 
in other places where boys and girls are 
thrown together. The boys do not seem 
to care for any one else except them- 
selves. 

Now, this is very bad manners. It is 
ungentlemanly. A boy thus trained, or 
allowed to grow up neglecting these lit- 
tle courtesies that are due to the oppo- 
site sex, becomes a boorish man, and is 



never likely to display those qualities 

which go to make up the true gentleman 

and of course the true Latter-day Saint. 
«... -^ 

A little incident during the recent 

heavy snow brought this particularly to 
our attention. A bob-sleigh driven by 
a young man stopped at the house to pick 
up two little tots, a boy and a girl who 
were going to school. Instead of draw- 
ing close up to the path where it would 
be convenient for the children to get on, 
the driver suited his own convenience and 
halted his team some little distance from 
the path, with the result that the children 
had to wade through the deep snow, 
getting their clothing and shoes and 
stockings covered before reaching the 
conveyance, and then having to climb 
in as best they could. Similar thought- 
lessness for the convenience and com- 
fort of others may frequently be seen on 
the part of teamsters. They even seem 
to think that a woman or a girl not only 
should not receive any special consider- 
ation but should not even receive as much 
as would be shown to one of their own 
sex and age and condition. Many will not 
put themselves to the least inconvenience 
to accommodate a delicate woman or 
girl or an aged person. Such conduct 
is a plain mark of ill breeding. Team- 
sters in driving along the streets during 
sloppy and muddy weather will frequently 
crowd their teams forward so to splash 
on passers-by, and where these latter 
happen to be ladies, the ill-mannered 
drivers in too many cases hurry off 
laughing as though the incident had 
given them real pleasure. 

In crowded meetings it is not uncom- 
mon to witness instances of want of 
courtesy and kindness. Weak women 
and aged people often have to stand 
during an entire meeting, while young 
and able bodied men keep comfortable 
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enough courtesy to "change about" with 
those who are standing. 

One would think that the spirit of the 
Gospel would teach people better than 
this. If the life of the Savior be studied 
it will be found that He not only taught 
kindness and courtesy to others, but 
practiced it. The Apostle Paul refers 
to the same subject in the same way 
when he makes the allusion, "in honor 
preferring one another." This is the 
spirit of ths Gospel of the Son of God; 
and the Savior Himself exhibited it in 
refraining from baptizing the people, 
giving His Apostles the privilege]of per- 
forming that honorable and pleasurable 
work. 

We hope our fellow-workers in the 
Sunday School will pay more attention 
to the inculcation of this admirable 
feature in human character, and that in 
all their teachings they will exert them- 
selves to show that there is real pleas- 
ure in practicing self-sacrifice in order 
to give comfort and pleasure to others. 
Children should be taught to take de- 
light io giving the best seat to one older 
than themselves and to be pleased at 
the opportunity of remaining standing 
if seats are scarce and where the build- 
ing is crowded, in order to add to the 
comfort of others. To a right-minded 
person there is far more pleasure in this 
than in self-enjoyment, and it is a pleas- 
ure which should run through all our 
lives. Instead of trying to get the best 
always and indulging in selfishness, we 
ought to derive that enjoyment that 
comes from giving to others the best. 
Let children give to their companions 
the best apple, the best piece of candy 
or the best piece of anything else thai 
will gratify, instead of trying to get and 
keep the best for themselves. They will 
find the experience full of pleasure. 
They will be able to see at once that it 



represses selfishness, and they will be 
encouraged and gratified to notice how 
it brings out the better traits of human 
character. 



GETTING BOYS EARLY INTO THE HARNESS. 

In a recent issue of the Juvenile In- 
structor we made some remarks about 
the age at which boys might properly 
begin to perform the duties of a Deacon. 
A letter from an esteemed correspondent 
on the same subject contains suggestions 
which we so thoroughly approve of and 
endorse, that we feel to give them a 
place in these columns. 

He tells us that in his ward when he 
was Bishop he followed a rule something 
like this: 

"As soon as a boy was eight years 
old I tried to see that he was baptized, 
and soon after that, saj' from two to six 
months, I invited and urged him to at- 
tend the Deacons' meetings. If he 
seemed to take an interest and to be 
regular in his attendance, I ordained him 
a Deacon at the age of nine or ten years. 
I had three brethren of my ward to 
whom I gave a mission to meet with the 
Deacons, not for the purpose of presid- 
ing, but to help the presidents of the 
quorum in getting up their program and 
in instructing them and the quorum 
generally in their duties. One of these 
brethren was also to be present each 
night that the meeting house was open 
to direct in providing fire and fuel, dust- 
ing, attending to the lighting, etc.,— to 
be with the boys and teach them their 
duties. I had four Deacons' quorums 
and these quorums took turns in presid- 
ing over this part of the work in the 
meeting house. 

"When the boys reached thirteen to 
fifteen years of age I ordained the presi- 
dents of the Deacons' quorums to the 



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of?-ce of Teacher. My reasons for taking 
the presidents as a rule was that other 
boys could thus be permitted to be presi- 
dent and gain the experience and enjoy 
for a time at least that post of honor. 
At seventeen to nineteen year^ of age, 
faithful Teachers I considered worthy to 
be ordained Priests. 

"I found no difficulty in interesting 
the little fellows in their work. As a 
rule they were faithful and anxious to 
do their duty. My experience forces me 
to believe that to put off, until say twelve 
years of age or after, the introduction of 
the boys to the labors of the Priesthood 
is not conducive to the best results, and 
I believe, therefore, in giving them work 
to do in these lines just as soon as pos- 
sible. It is difficult when a boy gets 
beyond a certain age, say fourteen, to 
get him to attend his Deacons' quorum 
meetings." 

With very much of the foregoing we 
are in entire accord. Of course it would 
not be proper to lay down a rule that 
boys of nine or ten should always be or- 
dained Deacons, for there is a difference, 
sometimes a very great one, in the 
capacity of boys. Some at ten years of 
age are more developed than others at 
two or three or four years older. It 
would not do, therefore, to establish a 
fixed rule in relation to this; but it cer- 
tainly can do no harm for boys even of 
that age to meet with the quorum and 
to receive ordination as soon as they seem 
to be fitted for it. The Priesthood might 
almost be considered a graded and pro- 
gressive educational system ; and it seems 
irregular, and generally cannot be at- 
tended with the best results, to ordain 
men Elders and Seventies who have 
never acted as Deacons, Teachers or 
Priests. The late President Woodruff 
always regretted that he had not been a 
Deacon and a Teacher. His first ordi- 



nation was to the office of a Priest, and 
while holding that office he went upon 
his first mission. His feeling was un- 
doubtedly a correct one, and yet we 
almost fear that among many young men 
in our community now, even the office of 
Priest is not considered exalted enough. 
We certainly think it would be excellent 
training for all our youths if they would 
act for a time in the offices of the lesser 
Priesthood bfefore being ordained to the 
higher. ' ' 



THE LITTLE HISSIONARY. 



CHAPTER v. 

The Christmas tide was hastening on; 
to Mary and the boys it seemed very 
strange to know by the calendar that it 
was the middle of December and yet 
the flowers bloomed, the sea sparkled, 
and the grass was dew-washed and 
green. 

There was another child on the mis- 
sion, indeed there were a number of 
them; but this story of little Mary 
Argyle's heart lessons could not be told 
were all the good and even very inter- 
esting incidents related which happened 
to the missionaries and their families 
on the Sandwich Islands. 

Little Ina Hale was one of the love- 
liest and brightest children who ever 
came to earth. Her small round head 
was covered with dark brown curls, 
and her large velvety brown eyes could 
assume at will arch vivacity or soft re- 
pose. She and sweet little Tommy 
Argyle were the pets of the mission. 
They were only two years and a half 
old, and by their innocent playfulness 
they drew everybody's heart to them. 

Mary soon found that she need not 
try to take care of Tommy, for he had 
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that nearly the whole time was spent 
there. So she attached herself more 
closely to her own family and spent 
much time admiring her Aunt Maidie 
and watching her bright, pretty ways, 
determining to be just like her when 
she grew up to be a woman. 

It was the evening before Christmas, 
and the children gathered on the steps of 
the tiny front porch, and begged Grandma 
Howe to tell them about, tt(e Christmas. 

About them gathered the violet twi- 
light of the tropics, around them blew 
the constant breath of the strong trade- 
wind from the restless, repining sea just 
below them, while over their heads the 
yellow stars began to pick out the old, 
old patterns in the purple ground-work 
of the heavens. 

"Tell us about the Savior and the 
angels," said Mary softly. "Could the 
shepherds keep warm out in the fields 
at night, Grandma?" 

"The Savior wasn't born on the twenty- 
fifth of December," said Mrs. Argyle. 

"Oh Mamma ["ejaculated Mary. "Then 
what is it Christmas fori"" 

The mother hesitated; she rather 
shrank from shattering the pretty Christ- 
mas idyl. But above all things she loved 
truth. And she thought it quite possi- 
ble to blend the real and the ideal if she 
could but get the inspiration. 

"Christ was born in the spring of the 
year, my dear. And many of our people 
think He was born on the sixth day of 
April. There was a holiday time kept 
at the close of the calendar year by the 
ancient pagans before the Savior was 
born. And when the Romans turned 
Christians they united the two ideas to- 
gether, the old holiday and the celebra- 
tion of a birthday for Christ. They 
didn't know the date of the Savior's 
birth and so they thought one day as 
good as another. " 



Mary felt her ideal slipping away, but 
she was too young to realize what hurt 
her. 

"And isn't there any really, truly 
Christmas?" she asked mournfully. 

"Yes, darling," hastily put in Aunt 
Maidie. 

Maidie wasn't bothered by many relig- 
ious scruples and so she proceeded to 
enlarge upon the legend of jolly Kris 
Kringle and his sleigh and bells, his 
round cheeks and his rounder stomach. 
The chimney and the stocking, all were 
brought up in vivid word painting. 

"I fear, Maidie," said Grandma, "Jane 
has displaced the Christ-Child only for 
you to set up a pagan-god in its place." 

"Oh no," answered Maidie, "you'll 
see." So, after enlarging on the gifts 
which Santa Claus brought to good 
children, she deftly turned the story into 
a relation of the mythology and ignor- 
ance on spiritual matters of the ancient 
Germans as well as all peoples but the 
Hebrews. 

"You and I, my darlings," she added 
sweetly, "have the precious truth of the 
Savior to hold in our hearts. There may 
be disputes as to the exact day that He 
was born but we know that He lived 
and died for you and me. He is Truth, 
while Santa Claus is false and untrue. 
If you pray to Him, He will hear you and 
answer your prayer, while the poor little 
heathen children had no God but a block 
of wood to pray to." 

"Oh," sighed Mary, "I wish He would 
hear my prayer. " 

"What is your prayer?" asked Grand- 
ma. 

"I would like some music in my 
stocking when I get up in the morning. 
They won't let me play on the organ 
over in the mission house, because it 
disturbs them, and I'm so hungry for 
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The ExiJe had silently joined their 
group under the cover of the darkness 
and he neard the child's ardent wish. 

"Have I got a little lost sheep over in 
your fold?" he asked pleasantly, as he 
leaned over to pick up his little girl. 

"Oh, she's never lost with us. Brother 
Hale," replied Grandma, "we would like 
to keep her with us always. 

Ina nestled lovingly in the strong aims 
of her father, and as they walked away 



prayer had been said, and the children 
were all tucked away and asleep under 
their mosquito-bar, Aunt Maidie brought 
out the doll she and her sister had been 
making for Mary. It had a long, slen- 
der, somewhat ill-shapen body, for it had 
been cut from cloth without a pattern 
and stuffed with sawdust by the mother. 
Then an old-fashioned china head, found 
in one of the old-fashioned stores of 
Honolulu, had been securely glued on by 




MISSION HOUSES AT PLANTATION, LAIE, SANDWICH ISLANDS PACIKIC OCEAN IN DISTANCE — 

NATIVE CHILDREN IN FOREGROUND. 



with a gentle "good-night," Tommy 
called out, "Good-night, little Ina." 

He was only a baby himself, but he 
assumed grave paternal airs always in 
his association with the pretty little 
baby girl. "Come again in the morning;" 
and Ina called back softly, "Good-night, 
Tommy. " 

After the sweetly solemn evening 



Papa and sewed as well by caieful 
Grandma. 

Aunt Maidie had cut up her own pale 
blue skirt to make a dress and cape for 
the poor thing, while from a sacrificed 
pillow-case she fashioned a whole suit 
of underwear. She made a dashing hat 
from bits of wire and some of the blue 
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roses taken from her own second-best 
hat. 

Miss Dolly looked quite stylish when 
at midnight she emerged from the skill- 
ful fingers of Aunt Maidie. 

Papa added his gift for his beloved 
Mary, a tin stove made out of an old five 
gallon coal oil can, with lids and legs 
soldered on with his own private solder- 
ing outfit. 

For the boys he had m^de a capital 
wagon out of a cracker box, with round 
wooden wheels and a long wooden handle 
with cross piece. 

Grandma Howe had sent in privately 
to Honolulu and bought some marbles 
and a knife apiece for the boys, with a 
pretty little handkerchief for Mary. 

The President of the mission had sent 
over a small offering of store candy and 
nuts with a big luscious orange for each 
one. To this the mother added some 
fancy cut cakes and a little molasses 
candy. 

The natives had sent some excellent 
poi and a beautiful blue fish, with a big 
bunch of bananas and a lot of guavas. 
Just before midnight a gentle knock at 
the door ushered in the Exile. 

"I have been down to Punaluu to the 
Chinaman's shop there," he said, pleas- 
antly, "to try and buy a mouth organ' 
apiece for your three children. I could 
find nothing in the musical line but some 
jews harps. Will you put them in the 
children's stockings with the rest of your 
gifts?" 

"And you've ridden twelve miles to- 
night to get some music to answer 
Mary's prayer with," said Mrs. Argyle. 
"I shall never forget your tender kind- 
ness now and always to my children," 
and the tears stood in her eyes. 

"Tush, I do nothing. Never have 
done anything!" for the Exile could en- 
dure anything better than praise of an}' 



kind ; " but I want you to take my Christ- 
mas greetings and the prayer that each 
year will bring added blessings ;" and he 
was gone. 

Mrs. Argyle stood a moment in the 
midnight starshine listening with hushed 
heart to the insistent sound of the sea 
and to the answering A-oice of the har- 
monious heavens above her. Did the 
moan flow from the heart of the sea and 
the anthem peal from the crown of the 
stars? Or were they blended into one 
great chord of life, death .and infinity? 
The angels sang 

"Peace on earth, good will to men." 

The next day was as delightful a 
Christmas to those far-away missionary 
children as any winter Christmas could 
possibly be. 

After the first joyful peep at the ple- 
thoric stockings pinned along the top 
rail of their mosquito-bar frame above 
the bed, the three children dashed with 
merry shouts into the very heart of the 
Christmas. 

Their "ohs" and "ahs," their wide- 
eyed curiosity and loud-mouthed expres- 
sion of delight amply compensated the 
faithful hearts who had prepared their 
modest gifts. 

Immediately after breakfast, Mary 
marshaled the whole colony of children 
with herself at the head, a stick in her 
hand to beat time, and her jews-harp 
held uselessly but honorably in her 
mouth while she sang the lead air and 
every child followed close behind in 
order of height — Edna, Irma, Allen, Ina 
and cute little Tommy bringing up the 
tear with a tin can for a drum. 

They all carried their jews-harps in 
their hands to give vraisemblance to 
their musical appearance; and away they 
marched, singing lustily "Aloha pu, 
Aloha pu. Aloha pu mi'au," serenading 



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everybody on the place, beginning with 
the Exile and ending with Mamma Kapu, 
the good old native woman who lived 
under the hill. 

The winter passed quickly away. 
There were sea-baths and horse-back 
excursions into the gulches for all who 
would take them on the Saturday; study 
for the young Elders, preaching for the 
older Elders, and plenty of hard work 
for all the women both young and old 
on the Laie plantation. 

There was. a dear little baby brother 
born to Mamma Argyle in February, a 
brother for Mary and Allen and Tommy, 
with pink fibts and blue eyes like the 
baby who had died in Utah. And the 
Argyle had named him Joseph, after the 
Exile, in loving remembrance of the 
warm friendship which grew stronger 
and sweeter every day between the Hales 
and themselves. To this name was 
added Sterling, in loving memory of the 
dear nephew at home. 

Aunt Maidie had taken the new baby 
into her heart to share places with 
Tommy, while all the rest had just made 
room for him side by side with each 
other. 

Indeed, the winter, like all human 
life was a composite of pleasure, pain, 
work, struggle, selfishness, gentleness 
and great waves of heart experiences. 

The spring was only spring by the 
calendar, but the calendar said it was 
April, and Grandma and Aunt Maidie 
declared that it was high time for them 
to go home to Utah. 

Sweet Aunt Maidie and dear, kind 
Grandma Howe! Aunt Maidie said her 
winter had gone for naught, for she had 
done nothing, learned nothing, and had 
nothing as her pay. But her sister 
looked into her odd velvety-rimmed will- 
ful eyes and if she made no outward re- 
ply there came to her the memory of 



Maidie's constant unselfishness in her 
home life; her sparkling and contagious 
cheerfulness which was like a well of 
sweet water whose waters fail not; she 
heard in her heart the songs and the 
pretty music of voice and fingers which 
made all their gatherings at the old Mis- 
sion-house so delightful; she remem- 
bered the words of the Exile to his wife: 
"When Maidie sings I can write with 
deeper inspiration, so let her sing on, 
all day if she will. " 

"Aunt Maidie," said Mary earnestly, 
"it isn't preaching always that makes a 
mission; it's working and kindness. 
Mamma says so. " 

"And have I worked and been kind, 
pet?" queried the young woman, always 
quick to respond to the touch of love or 
sympathy. 

"When I'm big, I want to be just as 
tall as you, and be dressed just like you, 
and sing just like you — yes, and look 
just exactly like you, too," said Mary, 
her solemn eyes giving point to her 
earnestness. 

"Why bless your little heart, I'm not 
half good enough for you to pattern 
after. I'm frivolous and I'm not relig- 
ious, and I'm generally 'no account.' 
Don't choose me, Mary, don't choose 
me," but she pressed the little one to 
her heart as she spoke. 

"I have choosed you; I want to be 
like you; but I don't s'pose I can ever 
be as pretty. " 

"Why not, pray?" asked her aunt. 

"It's my nose," answered Mary, sadly. 
"Mamma says it's as flat as a native's, 
and yours is beautiful, you know," and 
Mary touched the handsome nose so 
close to her own little fiat one. 

"Well, pet, I'll tell you what we'll do. 
If you want a nose like mine and I want 
to be a proper model on which you can 
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clothes-pin on your nose and I must put 
one on my tongue." 

Mary was too literal to understand that, 
and she looked puzzled. In a moment 
she asked: 

"Can you put a clothes-pin on your 
tongue?" 

"I think it more probable that your 
nose will develop than that my wisdom 
may. However, here's a bear's hug and 
twenty good-by kisses. " 

The children cried and Mrs. Argyle 
mourned silently to see her mother and 
sister depart. The natives came out in 
crowds to see them leave. 

Aunt Maidie had endeared herself to 
every dark-skin on the plantation; and 
there was no lack of "uwe-"ing as she 
and her mother drove away down the 
sea-washed road. 

Grandma Howe was only gone for a 
little time, but Aunt Maidie? Ah, who 
could tell? Who could estimate the 
weight of responsibility she carried away 
with her in the knowledge that she was 
the beautiful ideal of her sensitive little 
niece? 

Maidie felt it; and it was a stay and 
a shield to her often afterwards in the 
checkered events which marked her 
pathway for years. 

Poor Mary suffered most of all for the 
loss of her Grandma and Aunt Maidie's 
society. Her mother absolutely refused 
to allow her to play, even for one hour, 
with the native children. To console 
herself she used sometimes to go over 
to "Aunt Nellie" Burton's as she called 
the sweet young wife of the choir leader, 
Elder Fred Burton. 

Nellie was a social little dumpling of 
a woman, and she enjoyed the society of 
the talkative, merry, little girl who never 
was still Unless she were asleep. 

Perhaps it was because of this con- 
stant association with grown-up people 



that Mary was so old-fashioned and 
quaint in all she said and did. 

Homespun. 

(TO BE CONTINUED.) 



A MORHON YOUTH AND INGERSOLL. 



In previous numbers of this paper I 
have paid some attention to various as- 
sertions in a work by Col. Robert G. 
Ingersoll, entitled, "Some Mistakes of 
Moses." The subject is interesting, and 
will bear continuation. 

On page .t(j of "the work referred to the 
following will be found: 

"Moses commences his story by telling 
us that in the beginning God created 
the heaven and the earth. If this 
means anything, it means that God 
produced, caused to exist, called into 
being, the heaven and the earth. It 
will not do to say he formed the heaven 
and the earth of previously existing 
matter. Moses conveys, and intended 
to convey, the idea that the matter of " 
which the heaven and the earth are 
composed, was created. It is impos- 
sible for me to conceive of something 
being created from nothing." 

I am sure it would have been as im- 
possible for Moses to conceive of some- 
thing being made from nothing as it is 
for Colonel Ingersoll. Moses knew as 
well as Mr. Ingersoll knows that nothing 
is nothing, and that it was impossible 
for even the Almighty to make some- 
thing out of nothing. 

The Bible does not say that the mat- 
ter of which the world was mode was 
produced out of nothing. Matter is 
eternal; it always existed; it cannot be 
destroyed. 

Mr. Ingersoll says, "It will not do to 
say that he (God) formed the heaven 
and the earth of previously existing 



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matter." Why will it not do to make 
such an assertion? It may not suit Mr. 
Ingersoll for us to say so; but we are 
going to say it anyhow. We maintain 
that that is just what Moses and the 
rest of the prophets understood —that 
God formed the earth of previously 
existing matter. 

I am aware that Bacon styles Moses 
"God's first pen." But Moses was not 
God's first pen. Abraham lived before 
Moses, and wrote an account of the 
creation of the earth. The writings of 
Abraham were discovered some years 
ago in the catacombs of Egypt, and 
were translated through the power of 
God, by the Prophet Joseph Smith. 
From the writings of Abraham we take 
the following extract: 

"Now the Lord had shown unto me, 
Abraham, the intelligences that were 
organized before the world was; and 
among all these there were many of the 
noble and great ones; and God saw 
these souls that they were good, and he 
stood in the midst of them, and he said, 
These I will make my rulers; for he 
stood among those that were spirits, 
and he saw that they were good; and 
he said unto me, Abraham, thou art one 
of them, thou was chosen before thou 
wast born. And there stood one among 
them that was like unto God, and he 
said unto those who were with him, we 
will go down, for there is space there, 
and we will take of these materials, and we 
will make an earth whereupon these may 
dwell," etc. — Pearl of Great Price, p. 41. 

No doubt Moses was familiar with 
the writings of Abraham — in fact, one 
could easily believe that he had taken 
his account of the creation of the earth 
from them, there is such similarity be- 
tween the two records. Now, knowing 
what Abraham had written, viz., that 
the earth was made from previously 



existing materials, and that Abraham 
had been told these things by the Lord, 
would it be reasonable to believe that 
Moses intended to convey the idea that 
the earth was created out of nothing? 
It would not. 

On page 67 of his book Mr. Ingersoll 
says: 

"Just as soon as the water was forced 
to run down hill, the dry land appeared, 
and the grass began' to grow, and the 
mantles of green were thrown over the 
shoulders of the hills, and the trees 
laughed into bud and blossom, and the 
branches were laden with fruit. And all 
this happened before a ray had left the 
quiver of the sun. * * * jt (joes not 
seem to me that grass and trees could 
grow and ripen into seed and fruit 
without the sun." 

Mr. Ingersoll cannot see how grass 
and trees could be made to grow with- 
out the aid of the sun. In this respect 
he resembles the writer's grandmother. 
In her childhood days the only artificial 
light known in the part of the country 
in which she lived was that which came 
from strips of wood which had been 
dipped in resin, and called "resined 
torches." No doubt she considered the 
light given by those torches very good, 
because she knew of none better. But 
after a time tallow candles were intro- 
duced and the "resined torch" became 
a thing of the past. The light furnished 
by the tallow candles was considered 
excellent, and I'm sure my grandmother 
thought that no improvement could be 
made upon it. But a few years later 
coal-oil lamps came in and put the 
tallow candles out. "Now," thought 
my grandmother, "this is the best light 
of all; we cannot get better than this." 
But some years later gas came in and 
took the place of the coal oil lamps. No 
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mother thought the end had been reached. 
But a few years ago electricity made 
its appearance, and the gas had to take 
its place in the rear, beside the coal oil 
lamps and tallow candles. Now, as my 
grandmother in her early days could not 
see how any better light could be ob- 
tained than that given by tallow candies 
and coal oil lamps, so Mr. IngersoU 
cannot understand how grass or trees 
could grow without the aid of the 
sun. 

But I could remind Mr. IngersoU that 
Moses, in the opening chapter of 
Genesis tells us that light existed before 
the sun. He says: "And God said, 
Let there be light; and there was light." 
This, Longinus, an eminent rhetorician, 
has pronounced the sublimest sentence 
in any language or in any book. But 
after the creation of light, we find it 
stated that the work of the fourth day 
was, "Let there be lights in the firma- 
ment of heaven to divide the day from 
the night; and let them be for signs, 
and for seasons, and for days, and for 
years. And God made two great lights; 
the sun, the greater light, to lule the 
day, and the lesser light to rule the 
night. " 

"The usual objection," says the 
Reverend John Gumming, is, "how 
ignorant was Moses! He actually has 
the stupidity to state that there was 
light before the source of light was 
created! Can anything be more out- 
rageous than this! But if so outrageous, 
would you expect a man of common- 
sense to perpetrate such an outrage? If 
any of us had been writing about the 
source of light, we never should have 
dreamed of talking of light spreading over 
the earth its beautiful mantle, unless 
we had first stated or assumed the source 
of light — the sun in the sky. And 
therefore the very fact that Moses de- 



liberately states there was light before 
the sun was appointed to give light is 
not the evidence of his ignorance, but a 
presumptive proof that there underlies 
it a deeper and more glorious thought. 
Let us ascertain how modern science 
justifies Moses. In an admirable volume 
by Kurtz, a German writer, are set 
forth the links of connection between 
the profoundest astronomical discoveries 
and the most simple statements of the 
word of God; and what are the most 
recent results of modern scientific in- 
vestigation? He shows us that light is 
not necessarily dependent on the sun. 

"Humboldt, in his 'Cosmos,' says: 
'The northern light derives most of its 
importance from the fact that the earth 
becomes self-luminous, and shows itself 
in itself capable of developing light; and 
the intensity of the terrestrial light, in 
cases of the brightest radiation toward 
the zenith, is resembled by the light of 
the moon in its first quarter. Occa- 
sionally printed characters are read by 
this polar light without difficulty.' 

"Wagner, another German writer, 
speaking of the northern light, and the 
natives of the northern parts of Scot- 
land, especially the Orkney and the 
Shetland Isles, must be able to confirm 
what he says: 'The northern light, 
being an intermitting phenomenon, and 
exhibiting to us the change from light 
to darkness, independent of the sun, we 
may find in it an analogy to similar 
changes occurring upon the earth before 
the creation of the sun.' 

"And lastly, Schubert, quoted by 
Kurtz, says: 'May not that polar light, 
which is called the aurora of the north, 
be the last glittering light of a departed 
age of the world, in which the whole 
earth was inclosed in an expanse 
of aerial fluid, from which, through 
the agency of electro-magnetic forces, 



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streamed forth an incomparably greater 
degree of light, accompanied with ani- 
mating warmth, almost in a similar 
mode to that which still occurs in the 
luminous atmosphere of our sun!' Now, 
here is the very singular fact, that 
toward the northern regions, around the 
pole, we discover a perpetual light, hav- 
ing no dependence on or connection 
with the sun. * * * Therefore we 
argue from the remains of the polar 
light shining independent of the sun, so 
bright that printed characters can be 
read in it, that there has been a light, 
in all probability, long before the sun's 
body was created, as well as long before 
the sun's present ofifice was appointed; 
and that light began when God said, 
'Let there be light, and there was light. ' " 

I have still another important witness 
for the defense of Moses. This man 
is John the Revelator. What is his 
testimony? While a prisoner on the 
isle of Patmos, this man was given 
a most glorious vision by the Lord 
Among other things he was privileged 
to behold the New Jerusalem, a descrip- 
tion of which he has given. He says 
that he saw the tree of life, the leaves 
of which were for the healing of the 
nations; and yet the city had no need of 
the sun, for the Lamb of God was the 
light thereof (Rev. 22:5). 

Mr. Ingersoll may not be inclined to 
give much heed to the vision of this 
Apostle; but I would remind him that 
it was he who prophesied concerning 
the seven churches in Asia, and that 
infidels have admitted that the prophe- 
cies concerning these churches were all 
literally fulfilled, and that, too, centuries 
after the book of Revelation had been 
much written against b}- scoffers. 

And I would further remind him that 
it was this same man who prophesied 
that the Gospel would be restored by an 



angel in the last days; and that hun- 
dreds of thousands of Latter-day Saints 
can bear testimony that that prophecy 
has been literally fulfilled also. 

W. A. M. 



FOR CONSCIENCE SAKE. 



GiRARD, the millionaire of Philadel- 
phia, one Saturday ordered all his clerks 
to come on the morrow to his wharf, 
and help to unload a newly arrived 
ship. One young man replied quietly: 

"Mr. Girard, I can't work on Sundays. " 

"You know our rules?" 

"Yes, I know. I have a mother to 
support, but I can't work Sundays." 

"Well, step up to the desk and the 
cashier will settle with you." 

For three weeks the young man could 
find DO work, but one day a banker 
came to Girard to ask if he could 
recommend a man for cashier in a new 
bank. The discharged young man was 
at once named as a suitable person. 

"But," said the banker, "you dis- 
missed him." 

"Yes, because he would not work 
Sundays. A man who would lose his 
place for conscience sake would make a 
trustworthy cashier." 

He was appointed. 



WORK WELL DONE. 



He who builds upon the sand 
A building has which will not stand; 
But he who builds a house on stone, 
The work he does is work well done. 
The man who builds on sand is he 
Whose work with Gospel won't agree; 
But he whose house on stone is laid, 
Which shall endure when it is made, 
Is he who builds to patterns true 
As Jesus taught to say and do. 

Alva A. Tanner. 



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Our Cmic ToIR$. 



A LESSON TO KITTEN5 AND BOYS. 



The dog Pompey, of whom I wrote in 
the last number of the Juvenile, is not 
the only animal that lived long enough 
with us, and became dear enough to 
us, to be thought a real member of 
the family. I have a little, old Shetland 
pony, — nearly three times as old as I 
am, and I have already told you my age — 
and some time I will tell you her famous 
history, and show you her picture. Just 
now I want to write about a funny thing 
■whichJi|;_happened to m)- sister's cat's 



toothache in the night and had not slept 
very well; so I did not feel mucii like 
romping around with the other boys, or 
even like trying on the boxing gloves 
with them in the loft of our barn. I 
wanted more quiet sport; and thought a 
nice little hunting trip on the porch 
where it was warm and bright would be 
about the right thing. 

After I had fired a few shots, missing 
my bird always, I saw the three kittens 
come sneaking aroimd the corner of the 
house, seemingly following something. 
I curled down more closely on the steps, 
and laid my gun softly down across my 
lap. What were they after? I did not 
think mice would be likely to be out of 





three kittens, and about a funny thing 
which happened to me. 

One of the presents which I received 
at Christmas was an air-gun. It shoots 
strong enough to kill sparrows lif I can 
hit them); and all the boys in our 
neighborhood think it is the proper 
thing to kill these little "spugs," when- 
ever anybody gets a chance. In front of 
our house are some large trees, on 
which of course there are now no leaves; 
and in these trees may be nearly 
always seen a lot of sparrows. The 
other day, when the sun was shining as 
warm as if spring had come, but when 
the lawn was still soft and the sidewalks 
and roads still muddy, I went out on 
the front porch with my gun to see if I 
could not get a shot. I had had the 



doors this early in the year, and of 
course I knew there were no young 
birds. But presently I saw what was 
the matter: there on a dry, warm board 
was a wasp or bee. He seemed lone- 
some and chilly, hut whoever thought 
that bug wasn't ready to do business in 
the same old way, makes a great mis- 
take. The foolish kittens made it at once. 
They crept closer and closer on the 
ground toward the bug, as though the)' 
were charmed by his shining jacket and 
the nimble way in which he scratchetl 
his feet together and aired his wings. 
Finally they hatl come so near that they 
could have almost reached him with 
their paws. Then Jennie that's the 
prettiest kitten, and the one which is 
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milk or cake to be had — made a quick 
spring at the little enemy. 

Exactly what happened I have never 
known, but I always thought that in- 
stead of Jennie catching the bug, the 
bug caught Jennie. Shd jumped up in 
the air with a bound, and as she came 
down she rolled over two or three times. 
Her tail swelled all up, and she rooted 
around on the lawn with her little bare 
nose in a way that made it look as 
though something was hurting her pretty 
badly. Her two sisters scampered off 
at the first jump, without waiting to 
offer her help or comfort; and after she 
had cut up all sorts of capers, she also 
chased off to their favorite resting place 
under the coal shed. 

I laughed at all this until I nearly 
cried; and then I sat up in a large 
comfortable camp-chair that stands on 
the porch, and began watching for 
sparrows again. 
* ****** 

Pretty soon the strangest thing hap- 
pened that I ever heard tell of. A 
plump, red-breasted robin called all the 
birds in the trees together on a large 
limb, and made a speech to them in 
which he gave me an awful character. 
He said I would be a murderer if I 
could only shoot a little better, and that 
the only reason there was not more 
mourning in several sparrow families in 
the neighborhood was because I could 
not hit the birds at which I aimed. 

"He doesn't shoot at me," continued 
my accuser, "but who knows when he 
may begin? I think our own safety 
demands that we punish him for intent 
to kill. A boy or a bird who has it in 
his heart to do an evil thing and is only 
waiting for a chance, is not much bet- 
ter than one who has already done it. 
If some one does not put a stop to this 
young man's tricks, the first thing we 



know there will be" some bird funerals 
and some crape on the doors of some 
bird homes, for he is getting more prac- 
tice in shooting every day, and he is 
pretty sure to learn after a time to hit 
us once in a while. Sha'n't we attend 
to his case before it becomes so serious 
a matter with us as this?" 

To this pretty long speech the whole 
bird audience gave close attention, and 
I was much frightened to hear that their 
answer was one loud "Yes!" 

One chipper and fidgety sparrow stood 
out to add more about my misdoings. 
He fluttered up and down in a highly 
angry way, and I could see the birds 
were getting worked up to a point of 
great bitterness where I would not stand 
much of a chance for any sympathy 
from them. "Why," shrieked this hot 
little fellow, "it is only an hour since he 
shot at my wife, and only missed her 
by about a toot. Just think how near I 
came to being a widower! Let me get 
at him! I'll take the law into my own 
claws, and have my revenge now while I 
am in the temper for it!" 

With that, and with a great flutter- 
ing and shouting among the birds, he 
darted down out of the tree at me, and 
jammed his stubby little beak right 
through my cheek and into my jaw 
where the toothache had been. 

I groaned with pain and with fear lest 
all the others should attack m,e in the 
same cruel way, for somehow or other 
I was not able to do a thing to defend 
myself, and they did not seem to be a 
bit afraid of me. 

But the robin again made a speech, 
this time calling on the birds not to be 
guilty of anything that they would be 
ashamed of. "Let others do wrong if 
they want to, ' advised he, "but let us 
keep within the law and do everything 
in a proper way." 



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157 



This good counsel quieted the tumult. 

"Now I propose, " said the robin, 
"that we give him a fair trial. Those who 
have met with injury from him, or who 
feel that he has done, or tried to 
do, or was willing and anxious to do 
them harm, must make their charges in the 
regular way. Those whom he has been 
good to, or whom he has befriended, 
or who even expect that if he has a 
chance he will at some time do them 
some act of kindness, may testify as wit- 
nesses in his behalf. We will have a 
bird jury, who shall sit out on this small 
limb by thenist-lves, and they must de- 
cide his case according to the evidence. 
Isn't this the best way of doing it?" 

Eveiybody seemed to like the plan ex- 
cept myself, but Judge Robin didn't take 
any notice of my objection, which, I 
must confess, was not very strongly ex- 
presfed by me. 

So the jury was called, nine of them, 
snug sparrows all, and they put on specs, 
tall hats and as wise a look as they knew 
how. I felt that I had not much mercy 
to expect from sparrows, and yet they 
all seemed willing to admit, with a 
meaning and cunning smile, that if any- 
thing good could be said in my favor 



they would be ghid to hear it and would 
give me the benefit of it. 

The charges against me were many 
and they really made me look like a very 
depraved and cruel person. Then my 
friends were invited to come forward and 
speak in my defense. I listened and wait- 
ed, but not a bird chirped ; nobody seemed 
to know anything in my favor, and the 
joy of the birds at the jury's verdict of 
"guilty" broke out in loud cheers. 

Then a hush came, as the judge went on 
to announce the punishment. One of the 
jur}', a tender-hearted young hen-sparrow, 
said she was willing to let me off easy if 
I would promise to behave better in the 
future. But the others and all the crowd 
seemed bent on having me severely pun- 
islied. Finally it was ordered that all 
the hen-sparrows I had shot at should 
assail my legs with their beaks, pecking 
and pinching me through my stockings 
as hard as they liked, but not attacking 
my face or hands where the naked skin 
would be made to bleed and perhaps I 
would be marked for life. While they 
were doing this, the cock-sparrows were 
to alight in such numbers upon a bough 
of the tree as to break it off, and with it 
they were to pound me on the head as 







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heavily as they could, 'until I begged 
heartily for mercy and promised good 
behavior for the future. 

This hard sentence they carried into 
effect— and oh, how my poor little legs 
and feet began to tingle with pain, for it 
even seemed as though my tormentors 
thrust their beaks through my shoes. 
The bough was quickly broken from the 
tree, and in a moment, whack! it rattled 
across my poor head. Before they could 
hit me a second blow I yelled for mercy 
and — woke up! 

I had fallen asleep in the chair, and 
the whole thing had been a horrid dream. 
What wakened me was a hard bump 
which my head received as it fell over 
sideways on the arm of the camp-chair, 
and that "pins and needles" feeling that 
one has when his foot goes "to sleep " 

I have never shot at a sparrow since. 
Prince Arthur. 



FOR THE LETTER=BOX. 



Dear Letter Box: We have a black 
and white dog, his name is Ring. 
We hitch him on the hand sleigh and he 
can pull u3 all around, even to Sunday 
School and meeting. 

Jasper Cole, age lo. 



Springville, Utah. 
Dear Letter-Box: My Papa got 
shot by the bank robbers some years 
ago and lost his leg; but he is still at 
work in the shop. He has sent for an 
artificial leg 

Ray Allan. 

Swan Lake, Idaho. 
Dear Letter-Box: Last summer my 
father and I were hauling some large 
dry red-pine logs. When we were coming 
home with the last load it Started to 
rain hard. I got very wet, and as I 



made an effort to jump off the wagon, 
both of my feet slipped from under me. 
I fell backward and my arm went under 
the hind wheel. My wrist was broken 
and I had to ride two miles and a half 
over a rough road before I was attended 
to. When I came home it nearly scared 
my mother to death, for she was very 
sick. When I got into bed my father 
set my wrist and bound it up. That 
night he prayed for me and the next 
morning I was able to move my arm 
again, and I know that the Lord answered 
our prayers. 

My school teacher is in the Idaho 
Legislature, and while he is away his 
wife teaches in his place. My father is 
janitor in the Legislature. My oldest 
brother, who is twenty years old, is on 
a mission to Norway, and my sister's 
husband is on a mission in the Southern 
States. 

We have taken the Juvenile for four- 
teen years, and love to read it. 

Anders Eskil Christensen, age ij. 

Monroe, Sevier Co., Utah. 

Dear Little Letter-Box: My Mamma 
has been reading little letters to me, 
and I thought I would write. I have 
been very ill: Mamma called the Elders 
in and they administered to me. I am 
well now and go to school. 

I will tell you about my dear Grandpa 
who fell off from a new house; he rolled 
quite a distance and then he fell twelve 
feet on a sharp rock. They carried 
him home on a board for he could not 
walk nor ride. |-fe was injured so badly 
he was not expected to live; but by his 
faith and the power of the Lord he was 
made well. He was seventy-nine years 
old. We thank the Lord for His bless- 
ings unto us. 

Your new friend, 
Zelta May Do.xjord, age lO years. 



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THE BIRDIE'S LULLABY. 



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MtTsio BY Frank W. MBBKHiL. 



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SPRING ANNOUNCEMENT. 



Everything that pertains to Spring is now timely. 
Everybody is preparing for it so as not to come in 
late. This probably is of more importance to the 
farmer than anybody else, as there is no making 
up for lost time with him. If you are think- 
ing of planting, it would be well for you to 
study carefully the advertisement of the Utah 
Nursery Co. There is a truly progressive concern 
for you, always studying the best interests of their 
customers, with the result that it is to their 
interest as well. They have been established 
since 1885 and have as pretty an eighty acres or 
more under cultivation as can be seen anywhere. 
They issue a complete descriptive catalogue which 
can be had for asking, and it contains besides, 
many hints of interest to growers. They invite 
correspondence and will be pleased to give any 



information in their power. They are good people 
to get in with and anybody interested should 
write them. 

Keep close watch on the advertisement of the 
H. Dinwoodey Furniture Co. For you might 
miss a good thing by skipping it. Theirs is a 
most complete establishment. 

If you are interested in musical instrument, 
pianos or organs, it would be a treat to go through 
the establishment of D. O. Calder's Sons. 
Those people must have bought out New York, 
judging by the simply enormous stock just put 
in. Any order by mail will receive prompt at- 
tention. 

In any case be sure you mention the JtrvENILB 
Instructor when you write. 



Vv^. 



RIERCE, 



HUHUFICTU"" 
...OF... 




SCHOOL SUPPLIES, 

Sahool, Chuneh, OpePa pOf^fllTURE 

SALT LAKE CITY, ■ UTAH. 

"•WRITE FOR CATALOGUE. 




SAVa ^ 

"For daily U30 it not only imparte Rfjit 
volvety sniootlmops to Iho.faco but nnliko manyf 
other preparations. I And it is of positive benefit 
!to the skin." 

Slic refurs to Ihc rotMn*iic(l 

POZZONI'S MEDICATED GDMPIEXION POWDERS. 




The " Hin§:let ^' strain sweeps 
the prizes each year at the Great 
Madison Square (N. Y.) shows. My 
stock, All of this strain, won first 
on pullet at 189S, and silver cup at 1S99, 
Utah Poultry Shows. Such stock will 
reproduce itself. Eggs and cockerels 
for sale. MRS. FRANCIS GODDARD, 

318 South West Temple St. Salt Lake City, Utah. 



OlalKers 

family 

Soap 

CONTAINS NO TREE ALKALI 








/P/ffxB{'''"'''r. 







IT ~ HKS < NO + eQWKL.. 



t'J.^.S fr^*^*" 



Best for all purposes and 
especially adapted for 
washing woolen goods. > 

It mill not injare Clothing, Skin of Paint. 
FOR SALE EVERYWHERE. 



(When writing pleaie mention tkii paper.) 



CLEANLINESS IS NEXT TO GODLINESS. 




Are you going to a doctor this Conference ? 
Have you some Acute, 
Chronic or Private Disease? 



^be Salt Xake 
Ibot Springs 
Sanitarium • • 



Offer you reliable services and Free 
Consultation. 



TWO LONG POOLS. ^ ^ 



Private Plunges 
and Cub Batbs. « 



« « 



The Baths are Recommended 
by all the Leading Phyi- 
iciaiu of the city. 

e e e 

Bverything First-Class and run in a Genteel 
Manner. The Ladies Hair Dressing and Massage 
Department is Superior in its appointments. Mrs. 
Albrich, the Matron, gives Massage Steam and 
Electric Baths. Swimming Lessons for Ladies 
and Children. Russian Baths and Massage for 
Men. The Towels and Suits are washed by the 
Bmpire Steam Laundry. 



We cure Stomach, Liver, Kidney, Bowel and 
Bladder trouble* ; Diseases of Men and Women ; 
Rheumatism, Paralysis, Nervous Prostration, and 
make a specialty of Whiskey, Morphine, Cocaine 
and Tobacco Habits. 



Our building and oflBce is at 

53-54 W. Third South Street, 
Salt -ake City, 

0. W. HARVEY, n. D., 

SuperinTendent. 



Utah. 



Save your Money and when you get a 
dollar, deposit it with 

Ziorf^ SayyriSs Sank 

TRUST 
COnPANY. 



_AND 




Story OF THE Book of JVIormon 

By Elder George Reynolds. 



Second Edition. Revised by the Author. 



Cloth embossed, $1.50. Full leather, $2.00 

Full leather, gilt edges, $2.50. 



M/ 



CANNON & SONS CO. have much pleasure 
in announcing the issuance at reduced prices, of 
a Second Edition of this popular work, for which 
there has been such a constant demand since the 
first edition went out of print. 



We pay 4 per cent, interest on Saving 

Deposits in any amount, from one dollar 

to thousands. Write for any information 

desired. 

WiLFORD Woodruff, George M. Cannom, 

President. Cashier. 

(WhsB writing please 



ORIGINKU BNGHKVINGS. 

N©Sn£ TVPE. GOOD PKP©R. 

GEO. Q. CANNON & SONS CO. 

SALT LAKE CITY. 
mentioQ thii paper.) 



A BENEFIT SALE 

FOR JUVENILE READERS 

A Good 
Wearing 
Dress Shoe. 

Lace or 
Button. 

B. F. RICHARDSON'S well known make of 
Ladies' Pine Shoes, sizes 2>^ to 8, C D E 
and EE widths. 

^ 1 .TS Postpaid. 





DON'T iniKIX. 



ORDER NOSni. 




TRE 

PEOPLE'S 
■^if*^^ EAyoRlTE 

LEAYB SALT LAKE OITY: 

'•The Overland Limited" lor Chicago, St. 
Paul, St Louis, Omaha, Kansas City, 
Denver and Park City TOOa.m 

"The Fast Mall" (or Chloago, 8t. Paul, 
St. Louis, Omaha, Kansas City and 
Denver . . . 6 40 p. m 

ABBITH SALT LAKH CITY: 

'The Overland Limited" from Chicago, St. 
Paul, St. Louis, Omaha, Kansas City, 
Denver and Park City 3 16 p.m 

'•The Fast Mall" from Chicago, St. Paul, 
St. Louis, Omaha, Kansas City and 
Denver 3 30 a. m 

Glty Ticket Offici 201 Main St., Salt Laki City. 

Telephone No. 646. 

Only one night on the road to Omaha, two nights 
to Chicago and St. Louis. Other lines one night ad- 
ditional. 

The Union Pacific is the only line through to above 
points without change ol oars, and the only line 
operating Buffet Smoking and Library Cars and 
Pullman Dining Cars, with 11 and 12 hours quickest 
time to Mo. Rlv. and Chicago respectively. 
H. M. CLAY,I 

General Agent. 



ONLY 

SEVENTY THREE 

HOURS. 

Salt Lake 
i^New York 



By a recent change in schedule the Overland Lim- 
ited of the Union Pacific and North- Western in con- 
nection with the L. S. & M. S. and N. Y. C. & H. R. 
R. R. now make the unparalled time record of only 
three days to New York. Train leaves Salt Lake 
7:00 am., Ogden 8:10 a.m., daily, arrives Chicago 
7:45 a.m., and Grand Central depot. New York City, 
10:35 a.m., second and third days respectively. Only 
one change of cars and twelve hours quickest time. 
For purchase of tickets and reservation of berths call 
at the "OLD STAND." 



20t MAIN STREET, 

Ob Addbbss, 



H. M. CLAY, 

General Agent. 

'When writing please 



SPRING PLAKTIHG 

Is nom in ordep. 

jA EVER were our trees so healthy, or our stock 
so complete, and everything is in readiness 
to give your orders close and prompt attention. 
Our variety is unlimited. For instance, in apples 
we have Ben Davis, Gano, Jonathan, Wine Sap, 
Rome Beauty, Mammoth, Blacktwig, Missouri 
Pippin, Delaware, Red Winter and many others. 
In Peaches, Pears, Apricots, Cherries, Grapes, 
etc., our varieties are equally great. 

SEND FOR OUR CATALOGUE AND PRICES. 
jtjt FREIGHT PREPAID, ^ot 

UTAH NURSERY CO., 

OHlee, 308-9 Htlas Bloek, 

SRIlT UHKE CITY, 
Hstabllahed 1885. UTRH^ 

BaeatioB this paper. 



20 Cfl^S STOVES 



SOLD TO DATE, THIS SEASON. 



GOOD STOCK YET ON HAND, ^ „^ ^ „.^ p .p. 



CKLL- KND SEB \JS. 



CO=OP. WAGON & riACHINE CO., 

Salt Lake City, Ogdcn and Logan, Utah. 
Montpelier and Idaho Falk, Idaho, j^j^^ 



_GEO. T. OOEliLi. Gen'l CQgir. 



Scenic Iine-™^ World 





■RIOGRANDt 
RAILROAD. 



THE POPULAR THROUGH 
CAR LINE FROM THE ««k 



Northwest 



-TO ALL POINTS 



East 



a F. NEVINS. GtiKral Ageni S. K. HOOPER, G. P. & T. A. 

SALT LAKE QTY. UTAH, DENVER. COIA 



SPEAKING 
OF" COAL 



Did you ever 
deal with a* «5* 



Bamberger Coal Co.? 



? 



<> e « 



i6i MAIN ST. 



2000 Pounds J» 
In Every Ton. 



IF IT GROWS IN SOIL 



We have It, or can procure It for you. 
Forty five cent packages of vegetables or 
flower seeds, your choice for fl.OO, eighteen 
for 60 cents, eight for 25 cents. 

Trees. Shrubs, Seeds, and Flowering 
Plants of all kinds. We shall be pleased 
to quote you prices, ^end for catalogue. 
Our specialties are Carnations, Roses, Ver- 
benas, Chrysanthemums, Fuchla's and 
Panaies. 



<5yru8 ^^. dold 9 S098, 

, 1292 

SALT LftKE CITY, UTAH. 



p. O. Bo.x, 1292 

Green House & Grounds 
10th So & Emery St. 



(When writing please mention this paper.) 



OUR $3.00 MEN'S PANTS 

Made from Provo Cloth are as good as any $4.50 Eastern. OUR $10.00 
MEN'S SUITS made from Provo Cloth are as good as any $15.00 
Eastern. Our own make of Men's, Women's and Children's Hose, Boys' 
and Men's Sweaters and Knit Combination Suits are better than Eastern 
goods. 

We sell Shirts, Neckwear, Underwear, Handkerchiefs, Home-made 
Hats and Children's and Boys' Clothing at lower prices than those who 
profess to be selling out, or at special sales. 

Wool Batting for Quilts, 50c per lb. 

CUXLER BROS. CO. 

36 riain Street, Salt Lake City. 

SCHOOL BOOKS 

School Boards and Dealers Please send in your orders early for 

School Books and School Supplies 



W HOLES AliE AND RETAIL. 



GEO. Q. CANNON & SONS CO., U and 13 Main Street. 

SEND YOUR FULL NAME AND ADDRESS ZTylrJIf^^e^^'nuTr!:^^ 

a Life Size Portrait of the late President Wilford Woodruff, securely packed and postpaid. "DEWEY," 
and other heros of the war. Beautiful Landscapes, Fruit, Flower and Game pieces artisticly colored, any one 
worth a good big fl. no printing on them. We send them out simply as an advertisment at less than cost. 
Your choice at 20 cents, secure them now before they are all gone, postpaid to any address. 
We make the finest portraits at the lowest prices, from any Photo. 

Addx^^s ' XJTjPi.K[ P=OE.TP5.jPs.IT CO., 

Calder'g Music Palace. Salt Lake City, Utah. 

DflYN&S IWUSI6 GOMPflNY, 

Successors to DAYNES & COALTER. 
•>l-l«- THE LEKDIISG 7UYUSIO DEALERS, -^l- 1^ 
CHICKERING, \ Special Attention given to ESTEY -| 

FISHER and I PIANOS. ^^^'' Orders. aiul I ORGANS. 

STERLING j CTTrALOGLIC rPCC. STERLING j 

^ Publishers of L. D. S. Anthem Book, vt* 

J.J. DAYNES, Jr., Manager. P. 0. Box 1090. -=^^-^ EVERYTHING KNOWN IN MUSIC. 




Ia/E have a magnificent line of this 
season's patterns. They are beau- 
tiful works of art. Prices from 15 cts. 
per double roll upwards. Call and in- ,/• 

spcct our stock. 

H. DINWOODEY 
Salt Lake City. FURNITURE CO. 




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Z. Q. M- T- 



It is well known that this famous Institution wae 
originally organized for the importation of 



^^r\^rt1 ^^Kh^r\diz^ 



Growing continuously, it is now the most reliable 
place in Utah for the purchaser of Dress and Dry 
Goods, Notions, Wraps and Garments, Boots, Shoes 
aid Clcthimg, Carpets and Wall Paper, Groceries, 
Stationery, Hardware, Tinware, Crockery, Glass, 
Stoves, Ranges, Tools, Drugs, etc., whether the 
intent be to buy at WHOLESALE OR RETAIL. 

MM Slmt, SKt Liki City, Utik. T. 6. WEBBER, Sipirlitutfuf. 



YOXJ ORH f^EST RSSUt?ED-^P- 



^ '^ GOOD LUGK and PROSPERITY 

In t899 if yoo use 

HGwiGtt Bros. 6o;s 

CROWN ^ 

Baking Powder. 

PURE HOME-EROUND SPICES m 
TRIPLE FLAVORING EXTRACTS.... 

For Sale Eyerywliere. 




Ask for them and j'j' 
Refuse all substitutes. 



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